Week 9 Reading

While I was completing this reading I had a few thoughts. The main chunk that dealt with telecommunication made me realize what a big part of our society it is. Nearly all of the companies I interned with this past summer incorported telecommunication into their daily work schedule. Wenner Media especially used it. I was a copy editing intern and would frequently watch the people I worked under use this tool to their advantage. Whether it was to communicate with other magazines or with other people inside the company. It got me to thinking about how much we would all benefit from using it. I also spent a lot of time this summer doing research. I found that the research I did on television (watching tivoed programs and taking notes on celebrities) proved to be more revealing than actually going out into Times Square and polling real people on topics that included celebrities. Not only was the information more useful when taken from television but the responses more elaborate. I couldn't figure out whether or not the fact that television is more useful than real life responses from people is a positive or a negative thing. Either way the reading was extensive but I took personal experience out of it.